Here at the RBSCL@AUC [Rare Books & Special Collections Library at the American University in Cairo], I’ve become quite the social media guru. I’ve been blogging, tweeting & Facebooking for the library and, last week, my mentors mentioned starting a Flickr page. As an avid user my of Flickr myself, I was excited about the opportunity.
Today I sat down, explored the servers and hard drives at AUC and found some really amazing images and photographs. After loading them them onto Flickr, I posted a blog and sent out tweets inviting users to comment/tag/note them.
We’ve talked a lot about crowd sourcing, community participation and folksonomies in my classes at SI, most notably Wikipedia and the Library of Congress Flickr, but this is my first time being directly involved in such a project.
To my surprise, after a half a day, we already a lot of tags, comments and other descriptive information added. I’m so excited about this and I can’t wait to add more photographs.
Here’s an example of the types of things we have up:
Feel free to check it out & add information!
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- Sensitive records, Bulgarian friends & mango juice
- Summer projects
- A reading challenge, personality tests & preparing for a new semester
- Photos from my bus ride and campus
- Three things before Thursday
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010, 9:31 am | 
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